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See this interesting article in Science: "Southern African Ancient Genomes Estimate Modern Human Divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 Years Ago" Abstract Southern Africa is consistently placed as a potential region for the evolution of Homo sapiens. We present genome sequences, up to 13x...

It is very well known that the Catholic Church has been the source of some nasty events in human history, one of which is the Inquisition to fight heresy. The brutality during these years was immeasurable, even if we consider that those were dark times. Thoughts on this matter?

I was reading an interesting article the other day talking about how some Japanese believe that blood type predicts human behavior, such as hard work, persistence, individuality etc. What do you guys think about it? Personally, I believe that if there is any effect, it should be minor.

Did the Knights Templar invent banking system? Back in the day, I recall myself watching a documentary about the Knights of the Temple (aka Templars). They mentioned that those people actually were the beginners of the banking system. I recall from history that the first bank was somewhere in...

General Patton ("Old Blood and Guts") has been an important figure during WWII. He is known to be a brilliant strategist, strict character in all aspects of life and especially the military one. The man was rough and never hesitated to speak his mind. In fact, he was a key figure for the victory...

I read somewhere that Proto-Greeks were actually located in the area of Epirus. Could this be relevant with the descent of the Dorians (Heracles sons, Ηρακλείδες) from northern lands? Another question is this: who were the Dorians and were they before in mainland Greece? If yes, what made them...

Maybe some of your have seen the masterpiece called "Blade Runner" who showed a very dystopian future for humanity. How do you guys envisage the future?

Of course people will come from "somewhere". They are 1/32 of this and 1/8 of that etc. Do even these numbers, or ethnicities that follow them, have any real effect? To me what matters more is the society you have been brought up, as this is what affects you the most in life. Surely, for second...

Many a year have passed since the cornerstones of the European morphoma, which we now call European Union, were established. Europe has been in a turbulent situation for many years now mainly due to issues regarding the economy and migration. For sure, as Africa is projected to reach a...

Upon reading the news regarding the referendum of independence in Catalonia--which, as it seems, will not be acknowledged by Spain,--I was wondering if there will be other parts of Europe that might ask for something similar. Our society nowadays in not that oppressive as it used to be and...

Pastoral societies are not very common nowadays, except maybe some parts of Africa. It is well-known that people who belong to pastoral societies are characterized by specific traits (e.g., trust among themselves, animosity against the outsiders etc.). I was wondering if there are any...

By chance I found this article that was published recently (by Jochen Fuss, Nikolai Spassov, David R. Begun, and Madelaine Böhme at PlosOne): http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0177127 Title: Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of...

Enough talking about Europe :) Recently, I have been fascinated with the Indian culture and I would like to know a bit more about the Dravidians. Are these people the very first to reach India? How does their culture differ from that of the rest of the Indians (Aryans)? Eventually, one asks: is...

Europe is, relatively, a homogeneous continent compared to the rest of the world. Linguistic information from the past can be found in Murdock's work, Ethnographic Atlas. Yet, the Ethnographic Atlas considered mostly regions that did not have written history, and thus not many information can be...

Europe, although a small continent seems to display large differences in the ways its different people act and perceive different aspects of life. I remember back in the day when I read Geert Hofstede's study about cultural dimensions. Even inside Europe, differences seem to be somewhat...

I believe it has been around 30,000 years since Homo Sapiens came to be. Since evolution is a dynamic process, I was wondering how likely is a new major evolution of the human kind, especially given that the homogeneity is quite larger now, as opposed to the past. Where are we more likely to see...